We collect data from three Italian microcredit institutions which operate in urban areas by granting individual loans to two categories of wealthless borrowers: single entrepreneurs and organizations (cooperatives and associations).Evidence shows that organizations repay with higher probability...

This paper investigates empirically the role of real assets in credit rationing. The analysis is based on the idea that asset tangibility is inversely related to the probability that a firm will be credit constrained. Indeed, when loans are collateralized, the amount borrowed is determined by...

In order to examine the role of non-economically measurable factors into the models of voluntary provision of public goods, Experimental Economics showed two systematic findings: (a) in early rounds of game, individual contributions are surprisingly high and increasing, but they tend to decrease...

The issue of the cooperation among private agents in realising collective goods has always raised problems concerning the basic nature of individual behaviour as well as the more traditional economic problems. The Computational Economics literature on public goods provision can be useful to...

Il premio di prezzo è solo una componente, non marginale, sicuramente la più caratteristica e facilmente comunicabile, ma certamente non decisiva nel modello Fair Trade. L’avere incentrato l’attenzione su questo specifico aspetto del meccanismo complessivo ha nascosto altri aspetti più...

This paper describes the monetary policy of the European Central Bank. The analysis, entirely based on an investigation of the Bank's own documents, suggests that the ECB's monetary policy strategy is rather complex, but consistent with the objectives of the Maastricht Treaty. The Bank allows...

A general model of one-period portfolio optimization is presented in a new setting: financial leverage (i.e. margin accounts), long-buying/short-selling and a large number of assets are introduced. A multiple equilibrium solution is found, utilizing TAP equations (based on random matrices), a...